“64-bit processing capabilities are now an industry requirement for this tier and we are meeting our customers’ needs with both octa- and quad-core configurations, as well as bringing our superior Adreno 405 graphics and powerful suite of connectivity technologies to the Snapdragon 600 family of chipsets.”

It’s not clear which future smartphones could pack these new 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon chips, especially as the likes of the LG G3 will pack the Snapdragon 805 processor.

Perhaps we could see these new chips in phone’s coming out later in 2014, such as the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, but it’s more likely that these new CPUs won’t feature in phones until 2015. Read more: Snapdragon 805 vs 801 vs 800 - Qualcomm processors explained